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or Anaka to invade Gujarat. But according to Kumārapālaprabodha', its cause was religious rather than political one. According to Kumārapālaprabodha, sister of Kumārapāla was married to Anaka, the Chauhaman king of Sakambhari. Once the king laughed at some Jain Munis. The queen prohibited the king and was insulted by him. Being repudiated, she came to her brother Kumārapāla. Anaka engaged Vyāghrarāja giving three lac Dinar to kill Kumarapala. But the king Kumārapāla caught Vyaghrarāja and invaded upon Sapãdalakṣadeśa.
But according to Harabilas Sarda, there were two separate fights by Kumarapala against Anna2.
Kumarapala got the temple of Somanatha repaired3. This fact is noticed by Hemacandra and by all the historians. This was due to the inspiration of Bhāvabṛhaspati that the temple was repaired. Bhāvabṛhaspati exhorted Kumārapāla to restore the decayed temple of Somanatha. The king readily agreed and made Bṛhaspati the lord of all Ganas i.e. the head of all Saiva-temples in his dominion; bestowed presents of ornaments, two elephants and pearl necklaces on him and entrusted to him the governorship of Somanathapaṭṭan.5 Again the inscription proves that it was Brhaspati and not Hemacandra who induced the king to rebuild the temple.
Kumārapāla constructed a caitya of Pārsvanatha at Aṇhil
1. Kumarapalacaritrasangraha, p. 99.
2. Sarda, Harabilas, Kumārapali and Arņorāja, I.A. XLI. pp. 195-96.
3. DV. XX. 92, 94, 97.
4. W.Z.K.M. III. p. 2.
5. ibid., p. 2.
6. (a) W.Z.K.M. III. pp. 5-6.
(b) Cousens, H: Somanatha and other medieval temples in Kathiavad, A.S.I. (Imperial series) XLV. p. 14; 23.
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